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HEN A TOR BAYARD.
Au Open Letter on the Currency ques
tion.
THE OLD DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE OF HARD
MONEY—A SPLENDID ENUNCIATION OF
PRINCIPLES - A TRIBUTE TO THE SOUTH
ERN PEOPLE A DISCUSSION OF THE OLD
BANKING SYSTEM, ETC.. ETC.
Wilmington, Del., Nov. 5,1875.
To the Editor of the Atlanta Herald:
My Dear Sir : It wouM have saved
me somo hours iu a time of business
pressure if I eouUl have had the aid
of a stenographer at Macon to repori
the speech I there made to the peo
ple or Georgia. But as no report of
my speech was made, I cannot fail,
in view ofthegrave importance of the
subject, to comply with your request
for ‘‘an open letter,” in relation to
the question of national finance and
currency, which so interests and agi
tates tlie public mind at this time.
I shall s|K-ak as plainly as I can, and
must be forgiven if I reassert truisms,
which seem, however, to tic overlook
ed by many who discuss the subject
now-a-days.
Whatever is by law called “money
—the legalized currency of the coun
try -is the basis of all public and pri
vate contracts, and therefore of cred
it-being made by law the equiva
lent for all t hings'purchasable. If
this “money” contains iu itself uo
intrinsic value, it eannot be used as a
standard by which to measure the
value of other commodities, and thus
at once fails in the highest, attribute
of money, because instability is its
inherent and necessary feature; in
stability is uncertainty, and uncer
tainty is the fruitful paren* of fraud
and wrong. Thus, if with such
“money” we buv land, or houses, or
horses, or bread, and obtain credit
for such purchases the currency
having no I'ixed value -fluctuates
from day to day—so that no buyer
can know how much tie will have to
pay when his debts fall due, nor can
the seller know wbat value lie is to
receive; and thus all ordinary busi
ness operations become speculative
und gambling transactions. Witli a
basis so changeable, all loans of
money are uncertain, as the leader
can feel noconfidence that he will get
back a valuo equal to that with wiiieh
he parted, and will, therefore, hesi
tate to make the loan unless upon a
proflt equivalent, to his supposed
rislt, and this undue profit is always
paid bv the borrower. If the lender
was made to feel confident, that the
currency he loaned would not tie re
turned to him depreciated in value,
he would gladly put it to use and on
moderate terms.
it is the absence of such confidence
that produces “contraction,” and
gives rise to the complaints we often
hear of “want of money,” and which
causes the paralysis we witness in
every branch of trade and business.
The threat of “inflation” that is. of
increasing the volume of Irredeem
able paper notes of the Government,
and thereby necessarily decreasing
the value In a greater ratio produces
"contraction" in the amount of loans,
because it lessons the influence which
induces men having money, to lend
It. Thus the inflationists have been
all along, and are now, the real foes
of those who wish to borrow money,
on reasonable terms, in order to em
ploy men who labor for their daily
broad. We witness in the cities a ple
thorea of currency, which the own
ers long to invest to lend upon in
terest but which the insecurity pro
duced by the threat, of inflation de
ters. Ti>-day inoncv can be borrow
ed in millions in New York at the
rate Of 3 per cent, per annum “on
call” and secured by abundant collat
eral ; but it will not be lent on time,
or permanently invested, until the
owners are assured it will be faithful
ly repaid, undepreciated in value.
That condition secured, and the loan
is easy. , . ,
In other days it was the ngid
and faithful performance of their
•Contracts which gave to the banks of
Charleston, South Carolina, Mobile,
New Orleans, Savannah, and other
cities of the South, their enviable
fame and credit throughout the
Union. Some of these institutions
never failed to redeem their notes on
demand in gold and silver coin, even
in the midst of general temporary
suspensions of specie pay menu-so
rooted were they in stubborn, old
fashioned integrity. This was not
expedient, but it was right. It made
loans easy to be obtained, beeause
they were to be faithfully returned:
und the rate of interest wan low, be
camethe rink of leading urn email.
And we must hot forget that as fac
tors in all these transactions person
al integrity and good faith were ever
present which were the conditions
of high mercantile standing in the
cities I have named.
Nowhere in the wide world of com
merce was strict business integrity
more rigidly insisted upon and more
honored than in the cities of Charles
ton, Savannah, Mobile and New Or
leans, when the real men of the
South had control of affairs, and be
fore the days or carpet-bagging and
military interference.
The time has again come when the
true men of the South should, as I
believe they can and will, restore the
old regime of high personal charac
ter, and at once speak, plainly and
sensiblv as of yore, in favor of such
a iiolicy of administration as shall
lead to the substitution of a sound
currency, convertible at the will of
the holder into gold or silver coin.
Such a policy announced by them will
instantly give confidence to those
who own capital, or who control cap
ital, and we should witness the quick
reward of such proofs of wisdom and
THE DAILY TIMES.
sound policy in the abundant supi'h
of money upon mortgage mid other
security, and the States of the South
would "become the theatre of the in
vestment of capital, which now lies
idle iu the money centre for want of
confidence alone. Recent legislation
in the West, in Wisconsin ami other
States, and the late declarations in
Ohio, have alarmed capital and will
prevent its flow into these quarters,
where it has heretofore gone so free
ly, and will induce its recall when
ever practicable until the citizens of
those States shall take steps to re
assure their creditors of their Intent
to give due protection by luw to all
investments.
Therefore it is that I see in the
present condition of affairs and of
public sentiment the great opportu
nity for the restoration of the laws of
sound finance bv a return to the lim
itations of the Federal Constitution
upon the powers of Congress in rela
tion to this most important subject.
Ever since 18GZ there bus existed a
combination between the Federal Ad
ministration and the money power of
the country, unwholesome for both
parties anu unsafo for the country at
largo.
It has its basis in the system of Na
tional Banks organized under act. of
Congress and largely controlled by the
Treasury Department, and subject to
the will of a Congressional majority,
a condition of things never warrant
ed by the letter and spirit of the Con
stitution, or the federal nature of our
system of government. Under it the
bunking business of the entire coun
try has been restricted to one special
kind of capital; i. the bonds of
the U ill tod States Government, and
the employment of all other descrip
tions of capital asa basis for banking
has been rigidly excluded from com
petition. Credit has been restricted
to the single form f National Bank
notes, und tliis lias been unlawfully
and unwisely taken from the Status
and the people, where it admittedly
belonged under the usage of our Gov
ernment from its foundation, and de
posited under the sole and despotic
eoutrol of Congress. This was all ac
complished by the passage of au act
of Congress, which, under the pre
text of taxing the State Banking in
stitutions for the purpose of revenue,
crashed their circulation out of exis
tence. So long as this lasts, and
Congress is invested with the power
and sole discretion to determine and
control the volume of currency- the
extent of emissions of paper currency
fol all the States and people—just so
long uncertainty and dissatisfaction
will prevail, and the sound and true
principles of banking and credit will
be disregarded.
The ebb and flow of party power
changes Congressional majorities
from year to year, ami I can imagine
no body of men so unfit to exercise so
great a power and peculiardisoretion
as the accidental majority of Con
gress. Much a power has never been
exercised in Great Britain. Even
there under their imperial system,
and all the political omnipotence of
Parliament, such folly as confining
the banking business of the country
to a single species of capital, or pre
venting aEy banker or banking asso
ciation from using his or their credit
by tlie emission of notes in any form
they saw tit, lias never been attempt
ed or suggested. Therefore we see
tho numerous banks of Scotland, and
Ireland, ami England—“country
banks” they are called —pursuing a
safe, useful and profitable business;
supplying currency notes to their cus
tomers, ami regulating t he volume of
such issues under such limitations as
self-preservation, and the laws com
pelling the redemption of their notes
on demand in gold and silver coin,
make it necessary, The notes of the
Scotch and Irish banks float side by
side with the Bank of England and
tho coined money of the realm, in all
avenues of business. They are not
and never were a legal tender, hut
convertible, at will into coin, they be
came practically equivalent.
Tlie combination between the mon
eyed power of the country and Con
gress gives to the former a degree of
influence over legislation which is
inconsistent witli the public interest,
and hostile to popular freedom, ;qid
at't.he same time capital is subjected
to the Ignorant or capricious controlof
Congressional legislation, rendering
its operations insecure and unstable.
Is it not manifest t hat there is now a
favorable opportunity for the Bout.lt
ern States to assist in aiding tlie
country to return to systems of sound
finance and currency under the lim
itations imposed by the Federal Con
stitution over tho power of Congress
over this important subject.
The cry of Kelley, Butler, Wendell
Phillips, and (alas! here and there u
Democrat, is against "money rings,”
“bloated bondholders,” “coupon
clippers,” etc., etc., and passing by
for a moment the infamous nature of
such appeals, such outrages upon the
“law of tho land,” which is for the
rich as well as the poor, does not a
moment’s reflection make it, mani
fest that all the profits of fluctuation
in our paper money of credit —those
changes in its value which are going
on day by day and hour by hour, all
are at the cost of the laborer arid
consumer, and benefit the very clas
ses gainst whom Kelley & Cos. seek
to excite popular and ignorant preju
dice.
The moneyed class have it always
in their power by the purchase or
sale of gold to raise or lower the
value of the paper dollar; and when
Kelley and Butler insist upon a con
tinuance of the system of irredeema
ble paper money, they play directly
into the hands of the very classes
they affect to assail, and perpetuate
in their hands a cont rol over the cur
rency dangerous to the welfare of the
laboring and producing classes. It
is the man whosenlaily toil supplies
that day’s nedH.s, the man whose re
liance is upon steady industry, to
whom the fluctuation in the value of
the curency in which he is paid, are
so full of distress and loss. That
which depletes him fills the pockets
of the speculative class. How wise
and eloquent are the words of Web
ster: “Of all contrivances for cheat
ing the laboring classes of mankind,
none has been more effetual than
that which deludes them with paper
money.” This is the most effectual
of inventions to fertilize the rich
man’s field with the sweat of the
poor man’s brow. Ordinary tyranny,
oppression, excessive taxation these
bear lightly on the most of the com
munity, compared with the robber
ies committed by a depreciated paper
money. . ~
I feel the welfare of all our people
is bound up in a proper settlement of
this great question, and especially
the Southern people, to whom releif
from the present unfriendly adminis
tration at Washington, which is con
tinually growing upon them, and
threatening even the very existence
of states, is immediately and vitally
important. Finance has its laws,
and the business of the commercial
COLUMBUS. GA., TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1875.
world moulds these laws, and the na
tion that refuses to conform to them
must suffer just in proportion to the
extent of such refusal. Tho currency
of a country is the basis of its busi
ness, und if it consists of a money
without intrinsic value—a money
based upon credit only—and incon
vertible and irredeemable at any
time, it. will have no value whatever
outside the jurisdiction of the Gov
ernment bv whom it is issued, and is
totally useless to the market of the
world. Therefore, being inferior in
value to the money of the world, it
will always depreciate, and being de
preciated it will drive out of circula
tion all other currency of superior
value, for the obvious reason that no
one will give in exchange a thing of
greater value if lie can obtain that
which he needs for something of less
value, amt tints the currency of su
perior value will disappear and find
its way into places where it can be
used as money and without loss.
The law of supply and demand will
control, and gold, like water, find its
level. To invest a paper currency
with the attribute of being a legal
tender for all debts is but to increase
and intensify its powers for mischief,
and does not, ana never did in all his
tory, permanently prevent its depre
ciation. The power of legal tender
annexed to the note only assists, the
more hopelessly, to unsettle value
and demoralize till dealings between
man and man. If our people will but
read the history of this subject—in all
countries reflect upon it, and exam
ine it by the light of experience, I
feel confident they will willingly ac
cept the counsels of Washington, Jef
ferson, Hamilton, Madison, Jackson,
Webster and Calhoun, and reject the
modern lights afforded by Kelley and
Butler and Wendell Phillips, a restor
ation of confidence wilt “inflate,” in
a wholesome way, because it will en
courage timid capital to come out of
its hiding places, aud embark in en
terprises which will give entploj main
to labor and increase production.
Should such outlays become excessive
and degenerate into speculative
schemes, they will grow and burst;
then "panics” will come, and then
“contraction” follows the withdrawal
of capital. Every era of reckless
speculation is followed by a season
of timorous distrust—such as now ex
ists. Witness the wild embarkation
of capital upon vast and premature
enterprises, such as t he Northern Pa
cific Railroad, in the construction of
which tens of millions of dollars
were buried, for this generation at.
least. The victims of this spec
ulation are to be numbered by
thousands, and I have now before me
a glowing oration, by tho Hon. W. D.
Kelley, M. 0., delivered in Philadel
phia in June, 1871, inviting everybody
to put their money into tliis “mag
nificent undertaking.” His promises
aud pictures of profit and prosperity
were as abundant, and confident ns
those with which he now seeks to al
lure the people of the United States
into his patent “greenback bonding
scheme. And the misery his orato
ry assisted them to produce would be
terribly repented should he again
succeed in misleading his country
men.
The wreck of railroad property
which we see all over the land makes
capital necessary to set them again
in operation, and capital in Europe,
and in tliis country, only awaits the
signal of confidence. Whenever we
make it safe, to invest, the money will
quickly seek investment. But the
main source of confidence in a mart,
or in it people, is not so much in their
means of payment us in the lamest
will to pay. ’ Herein is my reliance
upon the ultimate prosperity of the
country. The impulsive people of
the Southern States may have crude
ideas of finance —may be befogged by
sophisms, and misled by hazy theo
ries iu regard to “thedismal science”
but I rely upon their sense of good
faith and duty of standing by their
plighted word. My trust is in these
home-bred, native qualities ; and
when at the close of tho late dreadful
struggle they re-entered tho Union
and became its citizens in name,
thev did so under the honorable
pledge of fidelity to the Govern
ment. Believing this, and trusting
them because I love them with a
love “that casteth out fear," I would,
from the day of their re-entry into
citizenship of the Union, have delega
ted to them their full share of politi
cal power, coupling with it a moral
responsibility for tiie public welfare.
For it the men of the South lack
honor and truth where shall wo look
for them? If they lack truth and
honor, may Heaven have mercy upon
them and us! For we have compell
ed them to a union that must prove
fatal.
No, my friend; in these years of
misguided “reconstruction” J have
steadily vouched for the good faith
nf the people of t lie South, ami asked
only that they should be permitted
to get upon their feet, to resume their
place in the Union—to speak freely
with their own voice, arid through
their own representatives. And
every pledge I made for them they
have kept, and every promise l made
has been fulfilled just in proportion
to the relaxation of the grasp of mili
tary power from their throats and
the withdrawal of inimical intefer
euce with their local affairs. Wher
ever they have been allowed to reha
bilitate their Htates und save them
selves from negro domination, from
Virginia to Texas, they have justified
tiie expectations of their friends and
overwhelmed with confusion the
prophecies of their foes. Public
opiuiou in the North has at last re
cognized this truth and compelled
Williams to depart from tlie Depart
ment of Justice (?) branded him ns a
malicious slanderer, and taught even
Morton that his “bloodv shirt” may
prove to him a shirt of Nessus.
And now I appeal to every man
among you —and to none so confi
dently aud directly as to those who
risked their lives in battle for tho in -
dependence of the Southern States
from this Government—crown your
pledge of citizenship with anew
proof of fealty—put under foot the
dangerous methods of assault upon
the credit and prosperity of our com
mon country which are contained,
intentionally or ignorantly ,but always
certainly, in measures which involve
a violation of the recognized laws of
finance which the commercial world
adopts for its government. Eschew
the idans and schemes of Kelley,
Butler and Phillips, and stand by
and insist upon a restoration of the
standard of value in our dealings as
the basis of our currency, State or
Federal, public or private, according
to the powers delegated to Congress
under the Constitution of our fathers.
Ido not say a (lav can tit. once be
fixed upon which the United States
Treasury can announce its ability to
pay all outstanding demand notes in
coin but. a system can be inaugura
ted looking directly to that result
which will make resumption an ear
ly possibility.
A man cannot be sure he will be In
health on a given day next year, but
lie can live according to the laws of
health and the result will naturally
follow. Let us have good will und
natural kindness restored between
tho sections—ungenerous suspicions
banished, and trust in each other re
stored among our countrymen. An
administration at Washington
friendly to the South as well as to
tho other sections of the country, a
sound economy in raising and ’ex
pending public revenue. Honesty,
old fashioned and precise in adminis
tration, and a declared policy of re
storing a specie basis for tiie money
of our people, and wo may then look
for a tide to set in, bearing confi
dence upon its bosom—“contraction”
will become “expansion,” aud pros
perity will smile again upon us and
our children’s children in a union of
co-equal States.
Sincerely your friend.
T. F. Bayard'
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Cotton Uc|iort.
New Orleans, Nov. 15.—The Com
mittee on Information and Statistics
of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
to whom have been entrusted the
duty of compling a National Cotton
crop report, made up from tho returns
of the various of changes appointed
therefor by the National Cotton Ex
change of America, beg leave to sub
mit the following for the month of
November:
NEW ORLEANS DEPARTMENT.
The New Orleans Cotton Exchange,
covering that part of the State of
Mississippi, not apportioned to Mem
phis and Mobile Cotton Exchanges,
the entire State of Louisiana, and the
State of Arkansas, south of the Ar
kansas river.
Louisiana From twenty-eight
parishes, we have received forty-three
letters, reporting less favorable
weather. A little more than one
half the crop had been gathered, and
with favorable weather all will be
gathered by the Ist of January. The
yield, as compared with last year,
will increase fully 12 per cent. There
had been no killing frost, but consid
erable damage had been done by
storms.
Mississippi fifty-two answers from
this State, average date first instant,
rejiort weather as favorable and
about tlie same as last year. About
45 per cent, of the crop is reported as
picked, and it is calculated that all
the crop will be gathered by the lust
of December. The rust and rot have
injured the yield from 5 to 7 per cent.,
which it is reported will exceed last
year by front 12 to 15 per cent.
Arkansas—The weather generally
is reported favorable for gathering
the crop, 45 percent of which is al
ready picked. Light frosts have oc
curred in the State from the 15th to
30th of October, but it is reported as
having done no damage to crops.
Rust and rot have injured tiie crops
between 3 und 4 per cent. The
yield is represented as generally bet
ter than last year, the average yield
being fully 5 per cent, in excess of
lust year.
charleston department.
Charleston Cotton Exchange, cov
ering the State of South Carolina.
Sixty-four replies front twenty-seven
counties.- The weather during Octo
ber lias been very favorable for gath
ering crops; generally more so than
last year. Exceedingly dry weather
and in many sections the rust having
caused it to mature very early.
Three-fourths of the crops are now
gathered, and with favorable weath
er the picking will be finished by
the 15th or 20th of November. The
average yield will fall short of last
year 23 per cent. The injury to crops
by rust lias been very severe in many
sections of tliis Slate, but it is impos
sible to give the per cent.
SAVANNAH DEPARTMENT.
The Savannah Cotton Exchange,
covering Northern, Middle and
Southwestern Georgia, and tiie State
of Florida:
Georgia The weather has been
good, and as favorable as last year
for gathering the crop. There was a
light frost on or about the 18th of
October, doing but slight damage.
About two-thirds of a crop is now
picked, and will be generally iinished
by the lust of November. Average
yield will be over ten per cent, less
than last year. Top crop does not
fulfil expectations, not having recov
ered from the drought in July. Rust
on the light lands has lessened the
yield fully ten per cent.
Florida weather has been good
and favorable as last year. There
has been no injury from frost. Yield
as compared with last year is over 15
per cent. Three-fourths of tho cotton
is now picked, and will be finished
by Ist December.
NASHVILLE DEPARTMENT.
Tennessee—The Nashville Cotton
Exchange, covering middle Tennes
see, east of the Tennessee river.
A killing frost occurred from 10th
to 15th of October. Estimated dam
age averages 33 per cent, from £ to \
of the crop gathered; it will be fin
ished about the 20fh of November.
Art averago of twenty-six replies
show the yield to be 33 per cent, less
than last year.
Alabama.—Twenty-six replies from
thirteen counties report the weather
could not have been more favorable.
Frost occurred from the 10th to 15th
of October, and the damage therefrom
is estimated at 5 per cent. The aver
age of thirty-one answers give the
crop at 10 per cent, less than last year.
Frost did cotton no damage. Several
report it as having been of benefit.
MEMPHIS DEPARTMENT.
District of West Tennessee.- Twen
ty-six responses; twenty-five report
very favorable weather; fifteen more
favorable than 1874; nine abont the
same; two not so good-all report
killing frosts from the 11th to 18th—
average, 14th. Estimated damage 14J
l>er cent. Forty-seven per cent, of
the crop picked; estimated close of
picking season December 20th. Es
timated increase of yield 18 per cent.
Damage by rust will not exceed 1 per
cent.
Distriot of North Mississippi-
Thirty reports from twenty-eight
counties very favorable weather; ton
inoro favorable than 1874; fourteen
about same; six not so good; twenty
live report killing frost from 10th to
17th October; averago 14th ; five report
none. Estimated damage 1£ per
cent. Thirty-five per cent crop pink
ed. Estimated close of picking, with
fair weather, July 14th. Estimated
increase of yield 15 per cent, damage
by rust, rot and storms estimated to
be <ij per cent.
Damage not over six per cent. For
ty-two per cent, of crop picked. Es
timated close of picking with fair
weather, January 11th. Estimated
increase of yield 34 per cent.
District of North Arkansas thirty
three responses; thirty-two report
very favorable weather; twenty-one
more favorable than in 1874; nine
about the same; three not so favora
ble; twenty-nine report killing frost
9th to 18th October; average 14th;
six none.
MOBILE DEPARTMENT.
Alabama Seventy-eight replies
from forty counties. Tho weather
since the first of October has been
generally favorable for gathering the
cotton crop. Nearly two-thirds of the
crop has been picked and planters
expect to finish between November
the 15th and December the Ist, In
sixteen counties, comprising chiefly
of cotton prairie lands, average in
crease will bo 211 per cent, ovev last
year.
The damage by rust has uot been
material. In thirty-one counties the
average damage has % en about 14J
per cent, from tho August previous.
Mississippi -Thirty-live replies re
ceived from eighteen counties. Tlie
weather since the Ist of October has
been favorable for gathering crop.
About one-half of tho crop has been
picked, and planters do not expect to
be through before the Ist to 15th of
December. Thirteen counties report
au average increase of seventeen per
cent, over lust year’s yield. Damage
by rust has not been material in the
State. , ,
Augusta, Norfolk, Galveston aud
Wilminton Departments Reports
uot received.
Ned Harrison Watts, Chairman; R.
Degas, J. V. Richards, Wm. A. Gwin,
R. 0. Cammaek, Edward Morphy, W.
C. Simmons, jr., Committee of Infor
mation und Statistics. fOfficiul.]
[Signed] Sam’l H. Buck,
Secretary of Nationul Exchange of
America.
Minn Morin In the Wait.
Omaha, Nov. 15. -An extraordinary
storm is reported along the line oi
the Union Pacific Railroad, west of
Green river. Last night sleet fell in
such quantities that the telegraph
wires are reported as large around as
a man’s wrist. Snow to the depth of
one foot had fallen at Bitter creek,
aud was still falling at 10 o’clock this
morning. The cloud is moving cast.
Telegraphic communication west of
Green river has been broken all day.
Rome.
Rome, Nov. 15.- —Luciani, Arenati,
Fnima and Morelli, who were on tri
al, charged with complicity in tho
murder of Rafallo Senzogna, editor
of La Capitolo, have been convicted
and sentenced to penal servitude for
life.
Fire In Charleston.
Charleston Nov. 15.—A lire on
King street lust night, destroyed the
dry goods store of J. R. Read As Cos.,
Barnard’s photogragh gallery, and
an adjoining building temporarily oc
cupied by Edwards & Cos.
Kingsford’s Oswego Pure and
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octß 6m
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TIIE
MERCHANT TAILOR CLOTHIER,
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eolutubiu, Cin.
ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE
—OF—
Valuable Property.
WILL RE SOLD ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN
December, 1875, without reserve, at the
northwest corner of Broad and Ht. Clair streets
(Freer k Illgen corner), iu Columbus, Georgia,
netweeu the hours of ten o'clock in tho forenoon
aud four o'clock iu the afternoon, by me, Mary
,1. Henning, as Administratrix of the estate of
Hie late Henry L. Benning, deceased, the follow
ing property, namely:
Lot of land in the city of Columbus known as
north half of lot 194 on the east side of upper
Broad street, with the improvements thereon,
the same being the late residence ol General Hen
ry L. Benning, deceased, said lot contains one
fourth of an acre, more or Ices.
Lot of land iu the city of Columbus known ns
the south half of lot number 194 on tl vast side
of upper Broad street, being one of the most de
sirable building lots in the city, containing ouo
lourth of an acre, mors or less.
Lot of land iu the Coweta Reserve, with the
improvements thereon, abont one mile from the
city of Columbus fronting on t e Talbotton road
and adjoining the homestead of Mrs. Comer on the
right ami the homestead of Col. A. 11. Chappel on
tho left, and known as the Boswell place, contain
ing eighteen acres of land, more or less.
Also 8,406 acres of land, more or less, situated
In the northwestern portion of Muscogee county,
Georgia, in the eighth Mild nineteenth districts,
and known as the plantation of Gen. Henry L.
Benning, comprising the following lots of land,
to-wit: lots numbers 212 aud 346 iu the 19th dis
trict of Muscogee county.
Also, lot number 247, one-half of lot number
248 and 60 acres of lot number 218, in the 19th
district of Muscogee county.
Also, lots number MO, 261, 232, 253, 234 , 279,
280, 281, 282, 289, 2H4 and 285 in the 19tn district
of Muscogee county, and lots numbers 107, 108,
109, 110. 111, 112, and all of lots numbers 194, 106
and 106 lying on west side of Standing Boy creek
in the Bth district of Muscogee county.
Also, parts of lots numbers 105, 104, 108, 101,
100, 94, 93 and 09 In the Bth district of Muscogee
county.
Lot of land in the city of Columbus known as
part of lot number 803,with Improvements there
on situated on tiio southwest corner of Jackson
and Early streets having a front on Jackson
street of 09 feet, aud running squarely back
147 feet aud ten Inches.
Lot of land in the city of Columbus known as
part of lot number 303 with improvements there
on, fronting on east side of Jackson street eighty
feet, more or less, aud running squarely back 147
feet and ten inches.
Lot of land in city of Columbus known as south
half of lot number 304, fronting on Troup street
at the corner of Early and Troup streets, contain
ing one-fourth of an acre,more or less.
Lot of land in the city of Columbus known the
north half of lot number 304, fronting on as
west side of Troup street, containing one-fourth
of an acre more or less.
Also the Interest of said estate, be it what it
may, in and to a tract of land in the village of
Wyunton, iu the Coweta Reserve, containing 10
acres of land more or less, with improvements
thereon,adjoining the lauds occupied by B. A.
Thornton on the north and east, and on the south
by the lands occupied by O. E. Thomas, jr., and
on the west by lauds of Madison Dancer.
Also, the interest of said estate be it what it
may, in and to city lot number 196, fronting
on Oglethorpe street and containing one-half of
au acre of land more or less.
TFltltlH OF NAI.E.
One-third to be paid in cash, one-third on the
first day of December, 1876, and one-third on the
first day of December, 1877.
Deeds will be executed to purchrsers and
promisory notes bearing interest from date at
seven per cent, per annum will be taken from
purchasers, secured by mortgages on the land
sold. The whole of the above land is in the
county of Muscogee and State of Georgia. Tho
sale will be continued from day to day if necessa
ry until all the property Is sold.
MARY H. BENNING,
Administratrix of Henry L. Benning, deceased.
nov3 dtd
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COLUMBUS, GA. t
IS WELL SUPPLIED WITH MATERIAL. AND
Experienced Workmen employed in each De
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Orders for work of any description filled wltb
dispatch, and at most reasonable rates.
Georgia and Alabama Legal Blanks
Of every description on hand, or printed to or
der at short notice.
Receipt Books
FOR RAILROADS AND STEAMBOATS
Always iu stock: also printed to order when de
sired.
WRAPPING PAPER AMI BAGS.
A large quantity of various sizes and weightß
Manilla Wrapping Paper and Bags, suitable for
Merchants, now in stock, which 1 nm selling low
In any quantity desired, either printed or plain
Prices and Specimens of Work furnished
on application.
THOR. GILBERT,
Hnniloliih Street, Columbus, Ga.
.jan 1 tf
DeWolf & Stewart,
JOB PRINTERS,
43 RANDOLPH STREET,
Unity Times Office,
Columbus, Ca.
HILL HEADS,
LETTER HEADS,
NOTE HEADS,
MONTHLY STATEMENTS,
BUSINESS CARDS,
VISITING CARDS,
POSTAL CARDS,
SHIPPING TAGS,
ENVELOPES.
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WEDDING INVITATIONS,
BIIL9 LADING BOOKS,
R. R. RECEIPT BOOKS,
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Administrator’s Sale.
G 1 BORGIA MUSCOGEE COUNTY— AOREEA
f bly to an order from the Honorable Court
of Ordinary of said county, will be sold on the
first Tuesday in December next between the legal
hours of Bale, in front of tho store of Prei r k lll
ges, by Rosette, Ellis k Cos,, auctioneers in the
city of Columbus, Ga., the following property be
longing to the estate of James Warren Massey,
deceased, to-wit: All that tract of land in the 7th
district of Muscogee county, lying on Upatoie
creek, with fine improvements, known as the Mas
sey plantation, containing 768 acres more or less.
Terms of sale % cash, with privilege of one aud
two years for the balance in notes,equal amounts,
with interest at 7 per cent. Also at same time
and place, that tract of laud belonging to said es
tate known as the Baber Lot number 39, 7th dis
trict Muscogee county, containing acre*
more or less. Terms all cash, tela property sold
for benefit of heirs and creditors of said deceased.
JOHN, H. MASSEY.
nov3oaw4w Administrator.
Mortgage Sale.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Decem
ber next, at Itosette, Ellis k Co’s corner, in
the City of Columbus, between the legal hours of
sale, the following property, to-wit:
That tract or parcel of land lying in the City of
Columbus, and County of Muscogee, and known
in the plan of said City ns the North half of Lot
No. 601, situated on Mclntosh street, between
Early and Fulton streets. Levied on as the
property of Mary Lewis, to satisiy a mortgage
ft fa in my bauds in favor of Thos. 8, Tuggle vs.
Mary Lewis. Property pointed out in said mort
gage fl fa. J. U. IVEY.
Kept 29-wtd Sheriff.
POSTPONED
Chattahoochee Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN
December, within the legal hours of sale,
at the court houso door in Cusseta, the following
property to-wit: The building known bh the
Pleasant Hill (M. E. Church, South), near Gob
blers Hill, in the county of Chattahoochee,
to satisfy a saw mill leiu ft fa from the Superior
Court of said county, in favor of Wm. Bagly vs.
Win. Phillips, Elbert Miller and A. J. Barfield,
Committee. Property pointed out in fl fa.
JOHN M. SAPP.
Nov 2 td _ Sheriff.
POSTPONED.
Muscogee Tax Sales.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday iu De
cember next, between the legal hours of
sale, in front of Freer k Illgea' store, on Broad
street, Columbus, Ga., the following property,
to-wit:
South half of city lot No 282, being and lying iu
the City of Columbus, on Jackson street, between
Fulton aud Covington streets. Levied on as the
property of Mrs F C Dickerson, to satisfy a tax fl
fa in my hands for State and county taxes, for
the year 1874. Levy made by lawful Constable.
m >v7 td J R IVEY, Sheriff.
Mortgage Sale.
WILL BE SOLD ON THE FIRST TUESDAY IN
January, 1876, before the court house door
in Cusseta, Chattahoochee county within the le
gal hours of sale, one cream colored Mare, levied
on as the property of J. A. Gurge, to satisfy a
mortgage tt fa in my hands issued from Talbot Su
perior Court, in favor of Charles M. Smith,
against J. A. Gurge. Property pointed out in
fa. JOHN M. BAPP,
oct29 td Sheriff.
W. F. TIGXER, Dentist,
Randolph street, (opposite Strupper’s) Columbus
janl ly] Georgia.